Trump and Kamala Harris to campaign in North Carolina and Wisconsin

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Walz defended Biden in an interview this morning after the president came under fire for his response to a comedian who made racist and offensive remarks about the Puerto Rican community at Trump’s Sunday rally.

“President Biden was very clear that he’s talking about the rhetoric that we heard at that (rally), so that doesn’t undermine it,” Walz said in an interview on “CBS Mornings.”

“People are hungry to come back together. They’re hungry to find a unifying message. They’re hungry for us to find solutions, whether it’s pricing or whether it’s reproductive care, they want to see solutions,” said he.

Responding to comedian Tony Hinchcliffe’s remarks at Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally on Sunday, Biden defended the Puerto Rican community in a video call focused on Latino voters and appeared to criticize either Trump supporters or Hinchcliffe.

“They are good, decent, honorable people,” Biden said of Puerto Ricans. “The only trash I see floating out there are his supporters. His demonization of Latinos is unconscionable and it’s un-American. It’s totally contrary to everything we’ve done.”

White House spokesman Andrew Bates said in a statement that Biden “referred to the hateful rhetoric at the Madison Square Garden rally as trash.”

Stephanie Cutter, a senior messaging adviser to the Harris-Walz campaign, suggested in an interview on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” this morning that people should focus their outrage on Trump instead.

“Spare me the fake outrage from Donald Trump, JD Vance and his campaign. Even as they try to argue that President Biden is disparaging Trump voters, the president is calling the entire country trash,” she said.